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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Benjamin
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:34:32 +0200

Does anyone really make that claim? It sound absurd. Even in the Bible there are often different charecters with the same name.

Yigal
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] .. to yigal.. origins of thesis


And may I add to that the refusal to acknowledge
that some names may have been reused by different
Semitic peoples. Not just may have, but most
certainly were. Not only the names of individuals,
but also the heads of tribes who passed their names
onto their peoples and places.

The myth that names were not reused is
perpetuated by not recognizing that Tanakh is
limited in its scope, recording only a small
minority of the events and peoples that fall under
its historical span.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>

Two things. First, the linguistic similarity of the Mari "Benjaminites" to
those in Israel. Second, the insistance of some scholars that anything in
the ANE must be somehow related to the Bible, and that the "Patriarchal
traditions" in the Bible MUST reflect a "pre-Israelite" reality.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: <C60605 AT aol.com>
>
> -
> yigal....In the past, there were scholars who suggested
> that these "Benjaminites" were the ancestors of the biblical tribe - > the
> chronological and geographical distance is much to large for this to > be
> taken seriously.
>
> J Anna .... thanks, yigal, for following-up. Do we > have
> any idea re the thinking of these scholars {apparently mistaken
> scholars } re
> pre-jacob ''benjaminites.'' i.e., what sort of details did they use > to
> support their thesis. Even though their stance may be
> inaccurate, i'd like to
> research the matter a wee bit more. Thanks
>
>
> ..J Anna

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